@article{351018,
      recid = {351018},
      author = {Edwards, Gwynne.},
      title = {Lorca, Bun̋uel, Dalí forbidden pleasures and connected  lives / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {I.B. Tauris ;},
      address = {London ;},
      pages = {1 online resource (248 p.) :},
      year = {2009},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {They were born within six years of each other and, as  Gwynne Edwards reveals, their childhood circumstances were  very similar. Each was affected by a narrow-minded society  and an intolerant religious background which equated sex  with sin and led all three to experience sexual problems of  different kinds: Lorca, the guilt and anguish associated  with his homosexuality; Buñuel, feelings of sexual  inhibition; and Dalí, virtual impotence. Having met during  the 1920s at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, they  developed intense personal relationships and channeled  their respective obsessions into the cultural forms then  prevalent in Europe, in particular Surrealism. Rooted in  emotional turmoil, their work--from Lorca's dramatic  characters in search of sexual fulfillment, to Buñuel's  frustrated men and women, and Dalí's potent images of shame  and guilt--is highly autobiographical. Their left-wing  outrage directed at bourgeois values and the Catholic  Church was strongly felt, and in the case of Lorca in  particular, was sharpened by the catastrophic Civil War of  1936-9, during the first months of which he was murdered by  Franco's fascists. The war hastened Buñuel's departure to  France and Mexico and Dalí's to New York. Edwards describes  how, for the rest of his life, Buñuel clung to his  left-wing ideals and made outstanding films, while the  increasingly eccentric and money-obsessed Dalí embraced  Fascism and the Catholic Church, and saw his art go into  rapid decline.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351018},
}